[Cbe-oss-dev] Cell and new CPU feature bits

Benjamin Herrenschmidt benh at kernel.crashing.org
Fri May 26 16:22:43 EST 2006


On Fri, 2006-05-19 at 12:11 +0200, Arnd Bergmann wrote:
> On Friday 19 May 2006 06:07, Benjamin Herrenschmidt wrote:
> >  - Extended implementation of dcbt. (Another bit ? Or sould we just have
> > a "CELL" bit ? In which case should it cover the altivec additions too
> > or are those likely to exist in future non-Cell processors ?)
> 
> Isn't that already covered by PPC_FEATURE_CELL? Git log shows

Not specific to cell, 970 at least has it too.

Ben.





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